Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rock art
Carrickallan, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickallan
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.99593, -6.48402
- SMR number
- LH006-120----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Cup and multiple ring motif on rock outcrop (Clarke 1981, 111-14).
References
Clarke, J. P. 1981 ‘Prehistoric Rock Inscriptions near Dundalk, County Louth.' County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 20, No. 1, 106-116.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.